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Letters Patent 1Y0. 63,826, dated April 16, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCE.

TO `WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Beit known that I, JOHN AUGSPURGER, of Trenton, Butler county, Ohio,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Fences; and I dohereby/ declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making partof this specification.

My invention relates to a light, portable fence, easily moved from placeto place, and quickly set up and Aconnected where desired Without thelabor of digging post-holes, at the saine time that it makes a firmfence,

and cannot 'be lifted or disconnected by swine to get under, nor pushedover by cattle, nor easily blown down by the wind, but may be quicklyand easily separated and removed by the proprietor when desirable.v

The drawing represents a portion of two panels as set up, showing theinode of connecting them.

I construct my fence in panels as light as consistent with properstrength, consisting ot' two posts of unequal lengths, A and I3,connected by a suitable number of rails, (preferably ve,) with a braceeither diagonal or vertical about the mid-length of the panel. The postA at one end of cach panel is only of sutlicient length for theattachment of the rails, but the other, B, is longenvleaving a foot tosupport the panel above the ground of suchlength as may be necessary,one foot being thus furnished at cach joint. The top, bottom, andcentrel rails, (more or less,) of each panel extend at each end beyondthe posts, and are gained out for half their width, the gains II F beingin the upper side at one end and the lower side at the-other, 4and thepanels are connected by engaging the gains of one panel in thecorresponding ones of the next, as shown.- At Gr is shown an arrangementof gains for the purpose of attaching a cross fence, shown in dottedlines. Cleats secured over the rails at one post B, and the brace C ofeach alternate panel, retain in position a short length of rail, D,which slides hack and forth under the top rail, and the panels beingconnected by means of the gains .this slidc D is protruded Vunder thejoint, thereby preventing the raising of the upper panel to disconnectthem. A stop or peg, E, regulates, by itsimpact against the post I3, theextent of motion of the slide. The panels are set upon the ground in aworin or zigzag form so thatveach panel thusserves as a brace for thoseadjacent, securing the firmness and rigidity of vthe fence.

I claim heroin as new, and oi` my/invention-- '.lho construction of alight, portable fence in lengths or panels, with one short and one longpost,substan tially as shown and described, to be Connected and scouredin a worin or zigzag forni by'mca'ns of the prolonged and gained railsI"- F', in combination with the slide D, as shown and set forth.

In. testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

' JOHN AUGSPURG'ER.

Witnesses: v

` Guo. 1I. KNIGHT,

Jani-:s H. Latinas..

